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THE THIRD ANNUAL 


SUMMER SCHOOL OF DRAWING 


ART ROOMS OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY, 


Beginning Monday, the 8th day of July, 1878, and continuing 
four weeks. This is called the Third Annual Summer School 
of. Drawing, because it is to be under the same management 
as the first two sessions, held at Sandusky, Ohio, during the 
Summers of 1876 and 1877. 


FOR WHOM DESIGNED. 


First.. TEACHERS 1N Pustic Scuoots, who are required 
to teach: Drawing in their Schools, but who have had but 
little or no instruction in the best methods of performing 
such duties. 

Second. SUPERINTENDENTS OF PuBLIc SCHOOLS, PRINCIPALS, 
AND COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS, who are required to supervise 
and direct others in this branch of education, but who have 
had no previous opportunity to prepare themselves for this 
kind of work. 

Third. TEACHERS IN HicH ScHOOLS, ACADEMIES, AND PRI- 
- VATE ScHOOLs, who would like to have a better understanding 
of what is meant by the “new departure” in Industrial 
Drawing, lately introduced into this country. 

Fourth. TEACHERS IN NATURAL SCIENCE, who would like 
to become more proficient in drawing and sketching, as an 

aid in teaching Botany, Zoology, etc. 


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Fifth. TEACHERS oF Music, PENMANSHIP, OR ELOCUTION, 
who may find it to their advantage to take charge of more than 
one special branch in towns that are not able to employ a 
‘separate teacher for each subject. 

Sixth. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF Currure, who would 
like to add to their already liberal education a knowledge of 
Drawing and its underlying principles. _ 


REMARKS. 


Drawing is rapidly finding its way into all of our best 
schools. Special teachers can not and should not do all the 
teaching. The general teachers will be required to teach this 
subject in their own schools. Many have already been called 
upon to pass an examination in Drawing. Others will be 
called upon soon, and they must prepare for this work or lose 
the most desirable situations. Inall the range of teaching ex- 
pedients, there is no one thing, except character, that can 
give to teachers such power before their classes in teaching 
what they know, as to be able to use the chalk freely on the 
Slackboard for illustration. 

Many teachers, -who, of course, have never tried in the 
right way, say they cannot learn to draw. This is a grave 
mistake. Any teacher who has mastered the branches 
now taught in Public Schools, and who has successfully 
taught them, can learn to teach elementary drawing. 


WHAT CAN BE DONE. 


It is not expected that in four weeks time Artists can be 
made. But teachers who have a knowledge of the science of 
teaching and have had experience in teaching other subjects, 
can prepare themselves for teaching elementary drawing in 
a comparatively short time. 

Each student will voluntarily spend ten or more hours per 
day in work or study. Twenty days of ten hours each will | 
make two hundred hours. Wf a student should spend one 
hour per day in drawing, for two hundred days, it would be 


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considered as a good year’s work. Students who attend this 
Summer School, however, will do more than can be done in 
a year’s drawing of this kind, because the mind 1s not dis- 
tracted by other studies coming between the lessons. In 
proof of this we refer with pleasure to the following persons, 
who attended either the first or second session of this 
Summer School, and have since been satisfactorily teaching 
and supervising the drawing in the schools named: Miss 
Jennie D.P. Case, Supt. Drawing, Public Schools, Mansfield, 
Ohio; Mrs. Mary E. H. Wood, Supt. Drawing, Public 
Schools, Fremont, O.; Prof. G. W. Snavely, Supt. Drawing, 
Public Schools, Urbana, O.; Mrs. 8. K. Collins, Teacher of 
Drawing, High School, Sandusky, O.; Prof. W. H. Rayl, 
Prin., Grammar School Dep’t, Sandusky, O.; Prof. Geo. G. 
Stearns, Supt. Drawing, Public Schools, Ironton, O.; Prof. 
Harp Van Riper, Supt. Writing, Public Schools, Circleville, 
O.; Miss Fannie E. Goff, Supt. Drawing, Public Schools, 
Canton, O.; Miss Delia Palmer, Prin. Normal School, Milan, 
O.; Miss Louise W. Stoddard, Teacher of Drawing, Wooster 
University, Wooster, O.; Miss Olive B. Van Gorder, Supt. 
Drawing, Public Schools, Warren, O.; Prof. Edwin E. Curtis, 
Supt. Public Schools, Calumet, Mich.; Prof. W. A. Carpen- 
ter, Supt. Drawing, Public Schools, Minneapolis, Minn.; Prof. 
J. H. Thompson, Supt. Public Schools, Des Moines, Iowa. 


FACILITIES. 


The facilities for Art Study in the University have been 
increasing from year to year since its establishment, and they 
are now very ample for a course such as proposed in the 
Summer School of Drawing. The regular working or draw- 
ing room is supplied with desks, unusually well adapted to 
their purpose, besides a great variety of flat copies, models, 
casts, charts for teaching design and historical ornament, etc., 
etc. The surrounding scenery is pleasing, and will furnish 
excellent facilities for sketching from nature. 

Table board can be had at the University Boarding House 


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at $3.25 per week—rooms and light 5o cts. per week. Good 


table board in the city can be had at $4.00 per week—rooms 
$1.50 to $2.00 per week. 


COURSE OF INSTRUCTION. 


ELEMENTARY. 

The first two weeks of the School will be given to the study, 
explanation and practice of the following subjects: I. Ge- 
ometrical Drawing, with ruler and compass; II. Ortho- 
graphic Projection, or Mechanical Drawing, with instruments; 
III. Perspective Drawing, with instruments; IV. Free Hand 
Drawing; V. Model and Object Drawing in outline, or Free 
Hand Perspective; VI. Dictation Drawing and Original or 
Decorative Design. 

The instruction will be given in the form cf lectures, illus- 
trated on the blackboard. The hours of instruction will be 
from 9g to 12 A. M., for the first three subjects; and from 2 to 
5 P. M.,for the last three subjects, for five days in each week- 


ADVANCED. 

The last two weeks will be devoted to advanced instruction 
and practice in drawing from the solid, drawing from natural 
objects, in outline and in shade, sketching from nature, 
and chalk or crayon shading, with and without the stump. 

Lectures will also be given upon methods of teaching 
drawing in Primary, Grammar, High, Evening and Normal 
Schools ; also, upon the Exhibition of Drawings, Supervision 
of Didwinei in Public Schools, etc. 

Should time permit, general lectures on Historical Orna- 
ment, Botanical Analysis of Plants for Purposes of Design, 
Modeling in Clay, Ornamentation of Pottery, Industrial De- 
sign, Harmony of Color, Architecture and Sculpture will be 
given. 

Students who have attended either of the former sessions, 
or are otherwise prepared to do so, will be allowed to go as 
far beyond the course here laid down as their ability or in- 
clination will permit. 


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EXAMINATION AND DIPLOMA. 


The whole course of instruction will be closed by an ex- 
amination on the subjects passed over. Those who pass 
the ordeal satisfactorily will receive a certificate, or diploma, 
stating the result of the examination. Teachers who show 
their ability to take charge of drawing in Public Schools, 
will be recommended to Superintendents of Schools and 
Boards of Education where such teachers are wanted. Stu- 
dents taking up subjects beyond the course, can have such 
subjects included in their diplomas. | 


TUITION. 


The Tuition Fee is twenty-five dollars ($25.00,) in ad- 
vance. At least ten dollars ($10.00) worth of books, paper 
and material will be furnished free to each Student. Stu- 
dents need only provide themselves with pencils, a few sim- 
ple water colors, erasers, and mathematical instruments. 
Some former students, before attending, have thought the 
tuition too high. After attending, however, they have not 
thought so, as their salaries have frequently been increased 
enough to pay the whole cost of attending the School. 
The tuition for similar courses in the East is from $50 to 
$100. 

GENERAL REMARKS. 

The opening exercises will take place promptly at go’clock, 
Monday morning, July 8th, 1878, and 7 zs quite important 
that each member of the Institute be present on that occasion, 
as a general outline of the lessons will be given at that time. 

All persons who propose to attend the Institute will confer 
a favor by communicating such intention as early, if possible, 
as the first of June. | 

Teachers or others who wish to make some preparation 
for the course in drawing should study Geometry. If not 
acquainted with Geometry they should take some such work 
as Olney’s or Ray’s, and with compass and ruler work the 
practical problems. 


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Boards of Education in the smaller towns, will find it an 
economical method of introducing Drawing into their 
Schools, to select one of the most promising teachers from 
their corps, and at their own expense, send her to an Insti- 
tute of this kind. 

Superintendents and Boards of Education, who wish to 
introduce Drawing into their Schools, can learn of persons 
competent for such work, by addressing the undersigned. 
Address all communications concerning the Summer School 
of Drawing to ; 

Toy et BOM PSON, 
Instructor in Industrial Art, Purdue University, 
LaFayette, Ind. 


Corner of Ferry St. and Tinkler Avenue. 


WOOD CARVING AND MODELING IN CLAY. 


At the close of the School of Drawing, a class in Wood 
Carving and Modeling in Clay and Wax will be organized. if 
twelve students make application. This class will begin Aug, 
5, 1878, and continue four weeks. The hours for study and 
practice will be the same in number as for the School of 
Drawing. The tuition also, will be the same, $25. 

Ladies of leisure East and West find Wood Carving and 
Modeling not only a pleasing pastime but an employment 
that rapidly cultivates the taste and the power of invention. 
Those persons, whether male or female, who are dependent 
on their own exertions for a living, will find a knowledge of 
Wood Carving, Wood Engraving, Lithographing and Model- 
ing of the greatest practical utility. 


TESTIMONIALS. 


DEPARTMENT OF ART EDUCATION, 
Boston, Feb. 22d, 1876. 


Having been asked to express my opinion on the qualifications of 
Mr. L. S. Thompson, of Sandusky, Ohio, to conduct an Institute for 
the teaching of Industrial Drawing, I have much pleasure in saying 
that I consider him eminently qualified to do so. I have so high an 
opinion of him that I question whether any one in this country is bet- 
ter qualified in all the subjects, to give sound instruction in this branch . 
of education to teachers of public schools. Since residing here, I have 
watched the career of Mr. Thompson with great interest, and with - 
some opportunities for forming an accurate judgment, I would say to 
teachers and others, that they may safely trust to Mr. Thompson’s lead 
in the matter of Industrial Drawing. I hope to hear that he has been 
extensively engaged in such Institutes as are contemplated in several 
States for the study of this new subject, and have no doubt but that 
all his students will be satisfied with their experience, and the cause of 
Art Education will be much promoted. 


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Water Smiru, Gen’l Supt. Drawing, Boston, 
State Director of Art Education, Mass, 


WaRREN, OHIO, December 14th, 1876. 


Mr. Thompson is a nalwral teacher. He is concise and clear in all 
his statements to teachers and pupils. He adapts himself with ease 
and skill to all classes, both children and adults. Different from many 
teachers of special branches, he holds his pupils under perfect control 
while instructing them. That he is a man of more than ordinary and 
usual attainments in this branch of education, is conceded by all who 
know him. 

E. F. Movrron, Sup’t Public Instruction, Warren, O. 


FREMONT, OxI0, December 25, 1876. 


Mr. Thompson is a gentleman of scholarship and culture, thorough- 
ly well informed in modern educational methods, and in every way 
competent for general school supervision. He supplements this 
general culture with a well cultivated taste, and extraordinary manual 
skill in art, which have enabled him already to achieve eminent success 
in the specialty of drawing, and are guarantees of still greater success 
in the future. 

Z * * He is more than ordinarily skillful in imparting 
instruction to others, and never fails to interest his classes. 

With fine impulses and a manner calculated to disarm, rather than 
arouse prejudices, to conciliate rather than antagonize, he is eminently 
fitted to introduce into American Schools, and to popularize, Indus- 
trial Drawing, in which specialty, as aninstructor, he has few superiors 
in this country. 

W. W. Ross, Sup’t Public Schools, Fremont, O. 


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PAINESVILLE, OHIO, December 13, 1876. 


This is to certify that I have known Mr. L. 8S. Thompson many 
years; that he is a gentleman of excellent character and fine culture; 
and that he is an eminently successful teacher of Drawing. 


Tuos. W. Harvey, Late State Schoo! Commissioner of Ohio. 


Dayton, Onto, December 18, 1876. 


Mr. L. 8. Thompson has had a large experience in giving instruction 
in drawing, and has a high reputation for success in this specialty 
among Ohio educators. 


JoHN Hancock, Sup’t Public Schools, Dayton, O. 


CoLuMBUSs, OnI0, December 18, 1876. 


I regard Prof. L. 8. Thompson, of Sandusky, Ohio, as one of the 
most efficient teachers of drawing of my acquaintance. 


Cuas. S. SMart, 
Late State Commissioner of Common Schools, O. 


Eiyria, On10, December 18, 1876, 


Mr. L. 8. Thompson has the faculty of holding the attention of a 
large school. His pupils seem to catch somewhat his earnestness, and 
work for him, when other teachers fail to interest them. 

I consider Mr. Thompson a fine teacher of drawing. 


H. M. Parker, Sup’t Public Schools, Elyria, Ohio. 


Minan, Onto, November 12, 1875. 


The teachers of Erie Co. assembled last month in this place and 
held an “Institute,” as they have often done before. As usual the in- 
Structions were good, and well received, They differed, however, in 
one marked feature from old time routine. 

Mr. L. 8. Thompson, of Sandusky City, was present, his services 
having been engaged as an instructor. Showing himself a scholar in 
many ways, he chiefiy distinguished himself by placing before our 
minds, with marked clearness, the elements of drawing as applied to 
the Mechanic Arts. 

So completely was this done, that I think the majority of the 
teachers then present, could go home and teach these principles to 
their own pupils. 


CuesterR F,. Adams, Acting Pres’t, Hrie Co. Teachers’ Institute. 


Mr. L. S. Thompson, Superintendent of Drawing and Writing in 
the Sandusky Public Schools, to his acknowledged superiority in these 
branches, adds a thorough acquaintance with modern school methods. 

He is an excellent Institute Instructor, and it affords me pleasure to 
recommend him as such. 


U. T. Curran, Sup’t Public Schools, Sandusky, O. 


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“ArT ENTERTAINMENT.—Prof. L. 8. Thompson gave an art enter- 
tainment at the Female College last evening. The exhibition consisted. 
of views illustrating Kyptian, Grecian, Roman and Renaissance Orna- 
ments, interspersed with numerous and comic drawings. The views 
were thrown upon a large screen by means of asciopticon. The en- 
tertainment was very pleasing and instructive, and heartily enjoyed by 
the audience.”— Wheeling Daily Intelligencer. 


“The art entertainment given by Prof. L. 8. Thompson, last Thurs- 
day evening, under the auspices of the Institute, was one of solid 
merit, aside from the amusing illustrations of the subject. 

Prof. Thompson, in his particular subject of art, and in other re- 
spects, acquitted himself in a very acceptable manner before our 
Institute.”— Guernsey Times. 

“The evening session was occupied by Prof. Thompson, who delivered 
an exceedingly interesting and instructive lecture on Drawing, illus- 
trating his subject beautifully and plainly, by the aid of a sciopticon, 
showing the progress of the art, its utility, and impressing on the 


minds of his audience the necessity of giving more attention to art. 


culture. His illustrations of the types of ancient ornamental drawing 
were exceedingly fine.” Guernsey Jeffersonian. 


A SUCCESSFUL INSTITUTE. 


On the 7th of last month Prof. L. 8S. Thompson, Superintendent of 


Drawing in the Public Schools of this city, arranged to hold a Normal 


Institute here for teachers of Drawing and all others who desired to 


obtain a practical knowledge of the Art. 3 ¥, 
Happening to drop in day before nang at the room scone 
by Prof. Thompson’s class, we were shown some of the work executed 
by his pupils, who have certainly made most wonderful progress in the 
art, in so short a time. 5: 
‘Some of the original designs were so perfect, that they would be 


easily mistaken for lithographs by a casual observer or a novice in the 


Art. Under the efficient tuition of Prof. Thompson, those in atten- 
dance at the Institute, have become remarkably proficient in the var- 
ious modes of Drawing, and deserve much credit for the taste display- 
ed, and the rapid advancement which they have made in the Art.— 
Sandusky Daily Register. 

Resolutions adopted by the Teachers of Guthrie County, Iowa, at 
their Annual Institute. 


Resolved, That we recognize in Mr. Thompson a gentleman of culture and refinement, 


‘whose high intellectual attainments eminently fit him as an instructor, and that we will 
endeavor to profit by his suggestions on the subject of Education. 


Resolved, That we tender our unbounded thanks to Mr. Thompson for his zealous. 


labors, that we appreciate his originality in teaching the various branches, and consider his 
mode of School Management most excellent. 


I am glad to say you rendered almost universal satisfaction, and I 


have been congratulated on securing the services of such an efficient. 


Instructor. Some of the teachers have expressed a desire that you 
should conduct our next Institute. 


Jas. H. Mrgex, County Sup’t, Guthrie County, Iowa. 


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_. Prof. L.S. Thompson is a thorough and skillful teacher of Drawing, 
and I take pleasure in commending his proposed Summer School to 
all who may wish to receive a brief course of instruction. I am ac- 
quainted with no one better qualified to conduct such a school. 


EK. E. Wuire, Pres’t of Purdue University. 


“We can assure the people of those places where Prof. Thompson 
is to lecture that he isa gentleman admirably qualified to impart a vast 
amount of pleasing and practical information in regard to art and art 
education. As superintendent of drawing in the public schools of this 
city, Oberlin, Elyria, Fremont and Monroeville, he has won an enviable 
reputation as a gentleman thoroughly conversant with every detail of 
his profession. His work, of which we have been accorded the privi- 
lege of seeing specimens, is of the highest order of excellence. As @ 
lecturer he is a pleasing speaker, and handles his subject in a manner 
which brings it within the comprehension of all. We can conscientiously 
commend him to lecture committees, collegiate institutions and all 
others interested in art, as a gentleman of eminent attainments, prac- 
tical knowledge, and an interesting ande loquent speaker.”— Sandusky 
Daily Register. 
WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY, XENTA, O. 


“RESPECTED F'RrEND:—I am delighted with your mode of teaching 
writing. It is truly Pestalozzian—i. e.natural. It exercises at once 
the eye, the hand, language, the organ of comparison, and thus, be- 
sides the primary object-—mechanical skill—it becomes a powerful 
instrument of education or training; very different in that respect, 
from the lifeless, drawling, dawdling way in which the writing hour is 
so often spent.” T. E. Suxior. 


“What branch of education seems more hopelessly dry and me- 
chanical, less adapted to the cultivation of the intellectual faculties in 
a child, than writing, the mere copying of written characters ! 
accordingly, how lifeless and unintellectual the writing lesson usually 
is! But, under the skillful management of Prof. L. S. Thompson, of 
the Sandusky Public Schools, what a change! The dry bones are 
aroused into life by a stirring mode of questioning on the individual 
peculiarities, the correctness or incorrectness of the various characters 
traced by the pupils or for them. Thus, they are kept in a constant 
and gutle flow of healthy excitement. Not only is the lesson a pleas- 
niu exercise of the eye and the hand, but the faculties of comparison 
d language are called into lively action, not only without any loss, - 
ut rather with a positive gain in the artistic developement of form, 
which is the professed and primary purpose of the lesson. He also 
brings in the sister art of drawing, to lend her aid in the cultivation of 
that innate love of the beautiful--a love that requires only encouragement 
in order to bud forth into new creations, but which a mechanical routine 
of teaching forces to lie dormant and does its best to stifle. Thus can 
earnestness of will and originality of thought strike new paths where all 
seemed trite and hackneyed.”— 


T. E. Suxiot, Wilberforce University, Xenia, O. 


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Mr. Thompson has thoroughly established his reputation with our 
teachers and citizens as one of the most competent and faithful teachers 
of Penmanship in the country. 


In addition to his accomplishments as an instructor, Mr. Thompson 
has also the entire confidence of the ¢ommunity in the correctness of 
his habits and his integrity as a man. 


M. F. Cowovsry, (late Sup’t Pub. Schools, for 22 years,) 
Sandusky, Ohio. 
TEACHERS AANSTILUTES: 


The manager of the Summer School of Drawing can be 
secured to attend a limited number of Teachers’ Institutes, 


if application be made in season. While he is prepared to ~ 


take up any of the ordinary branches, or school management, 
he regards Drawing and Writing as his specialties. 


If it is desired, and he is notified at the time application © 


is made, he will give an entertainment with the Sciopticon, 
with drawings on glass, prepared especially for the purpose. 
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TOLECTURE COMMITTEES, LITERARY SOCIE, PIBS: 
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTIONS, &c. 

He has also prepared a number of lectures on subjects 
connected with Art and Art Education, which he will deliver 
at places where suitable arrangements can be made. These 
lectures will be illustrated by a series of large drawings, 
illustrating different styles of ancient and modern historical 
ornament, including Architecture and the History of Sculp- 
ture. Among the styles of ancient ornament illustrated are 
Egyptian, Assyrian, Grecian, Roman, Arabic, Mor cad 
Byzantine, Chinese, Celtic, Italian and Rennaisance. as 

Considering the interest manifested by the public, of lati 
years, concerning these and kindred subjects, he believes a lec 
ture of this kindcan be made not only pleasing and instructive, 
but quite unlike anything to which the public are usually 
invited. For terms and other particulars, address 


L. S. THOMPSON, Purdue University, 
LaFayette, Ind. 


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